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All veretebrates are chordates but all chordates are not vertebrates, why?

Option: 1

Ventral hollow nerve cord remains throughout life in some chordates 


Option: 2

All chordates posses vetebral column


Option: 3

All chordates posses notochord throughout their life.


Option: 4

Notochord is replaced by vertebral column in adult of some chordates


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  • Animals can be non chordates or chordates depending on absence and presence of notochord
  • Chordates can be invertebrates or vertebrates
  • In some animals notochord is replaced by vertebral column and these are known as Vertebrates while in some animals notochord remains as it is as in invertebrates
  • Thus all Chordates are not verterates but all Vertebrrates are Chordates
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